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I plonked myself down on the sofa and stared at the fire. I was staring so intently and for so long that it seemed as though there were people dancing in the flames, playing instruments and laughing and singing. Then I noticed it wasn't just my eyes playing tricks there were actually people in the fire. One plummeted out of the fire place, doing summersaults in the air. They were pixies. A small red, fiery creature stack its tongue out at me made a wet noise. It flew back into the fire and started his merry jig again; if it really was a he…I couldn't really tell.
I only wished life were that simple. I wished everything just happened the way I wanted. I wished…I wished I wasn't a teenage boy with hormones.
I used to be such a lively boy, naughty, cheeky, confident. But now I was a sob story waiting to happen. Lonely, single, boring and plain. I hadn't had a detention for at least 3 days! I really was losing my touch.
I had cried more in the past week then in the year last year.
I was worried about being the bully I always was. I hadn't even noticed before Lily, oh so kindly, pointed it out.
What was going on? Maybe I was going soft over a girl.
I knew what I had to do…I knew exactly what I had to do.
I left the common room to go in search of Billy Smith, he was a HufflePuff, next to the marauders he was a king prankster. Sometimes, when we were doing big operations, we let him tag along, he always stocked up on Zonko's stuff so he was always handy to have around.
"Hey Bill" I said catching up to him.
"James mate, what's up?"
"Nothing much" I shrugged, "Just wondering if you have any spray paint lying around."
"Hmm, might do let me check that for you"
"Thanks mate I appreciate it" He briefly went to his common room and came back with a few cans of spray paint.
"This enough?"
"Yes that's great thanks a bunch" I said stuffing them down my top and a few down my pants.
"So what do you Marauders have planned then?"
"Marauders?" I asked briefly, stopping shoving cans down my trousers, I looked at him.
"Yeah…you got a good prank up your sleeves?"
"Oh yeah…we're working on something" I said lying, because in fact, I was doing this prank on my own.
No cunning help from Remus, no distractions by Sirius, no using Peter as a lookout. Just me, James Potter going down alone.
"Anyway bye and thanks again" I said adjusting my trousers and scuttling off in the opposite direction.
"Ok, cya" I heard him call behind me, but I continued charging through the corridors, careful of dropping a can and being caught.
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Later that night, after all the Marauders were asleep, I snuck out, my invisibility cloak my father gave me for my 12th birthday, swung lightly over my shoulder.
I strode out of my dorm and down the stairs, stashing the cans underneath my belt. I swung the cloak over my shoulders and- stepped through the portrait hole.
I made no sound as I avoided Filch, Mrs Norris and a 6th year Prefect on my way to where I was headed.
I found the perfect spot to unleash my plan and dropped the invisibility cloak on the floor. I got out the spray cans and began my masterpiece. When I was finished I hastily put my cloak back on but not before leaving my mark.
I got back to my dorm at about 1 in the morning. I was so tired I didn't bother unchanging, I just fell into bed, falling straight away asleep.
The next day I woke up to Remus shaking me franticly.
"Huh what…what's the time?" I asked sitting up groggily and wiping drool off my chin.
"How could you do this to us Prongs? You know we do all pranks as a team!"
"Huh? Oh, right that…good huh?" I asked yawning and picking up my glasses from my side table.
"You betrayed us James!" He said letting go of my shoulders and backing away.
"Not really, I just had to get my rep back…and this was the best way, alone"
"But that totally goes against everything the Marauders stand for! You know Unity and all that crap"
"Look Moony, it was just a one off, it doesn't matter" I said shrugging it off and scrambling out of bed.
"No James, that's the point you've changed I'm all for you and Lily getting together but -"
"O so is that what this is about?" I said squaring my shoulders, "me and Lily? Look Moony if you're jealous than -"
"Jealous! Why would I be jealous Prongs, anyway it's not like anything is happening between you and Lily at the moment is it?" He shouted at me taking another step back.
"Shut up Moony you don't know anything!" I yelled taking a step towards him.
"You always say that James and you're always wrong!"
"Oh I am, am I?"
"Yes you are!" He shouted back at me also taking a step forwards.
"Look Remus, Sirius is already all up in my face, with all this Lily shit, don't tell me you love her too!"
"I do NOT love her!" He bellowed, swinging his fist at me. I ducked and kneed him in the shin, not wanting to hurt him too much.
"Ok Remus I understand, you don't love her" I said taking a leaf out of Lily's book and rolling my eyes.
"SHUT UP JAMES!" He yelled again this time ramming his fist into my gut. I coughed and spluttered as his pounding fist connected with my stomach.
"Get off Moony" I croaked.
"You are just an arrogant ass Prongs! You don't care for anyone but yourself!"
"That's not true…I care for Lily!" I shouted grabbing his fist and twisting his arm behind his back so he was in a sort of head lock.
"FU- ARGHH" He screamed as I heard his shoulder popping out of place. I let go of him like he was on fire.
"Oh…oh my god Moony, are you ok?" I didn't mean to have hurt him that much. His arm was sticking out at an odd angle, he looked down with pain in his eyes, I cautiously made my way towards him. Suddenly his fist came soaring through the air and I was struck hard and strong.
"I'm gonna kill you Potter!" He growled using his strong arm to thrash around at my face. He scratched me were Snape had cut me the day before and I screamed in agony.
"Look Moony you're getting out of control, is it nearly a full moon?" I asked grabbing his hand and shoving him off me.
"I am NOT out of control!" He shrilled, though he obviously was, he was throwing random punches at me and it was beginning to hurt a little, not a lot, but a little.
"LOOK MOONY JUST GET A HOLD OF YOUR SELF! GET A GRIP!" I yelled grabbing his wrists and holding him at arms length. "Look, I'm sorry ok, I'm sorry" I said my eyes starting to tear up.
"James you don't understand, no one does, you guys are like my only family. I can tell you anything, do you know how hard it is to be the freak, the one with the problem. My parents can barely cope when I'm at home, why do you think they send me to boarding school?"
"But Remus you said you were put on the waiting list for this school as soon as your mum knew she was having you"
"You believed that? No, the only reason I'm here is because Dumbledore knows my grand father, I'm the hopeless case, as always" He said hanging his head.
"Remus mate I…I don't know what to say" I said also hanging my head.
"Hey, you didn't know, anyway we were fighting over a girl and we all know I have no trouble at all in that department" He said laughing. By the way he was joking, Remus said he 'barely had time for a girlfriend with all the studying he does, they wouldn't understand him anyway, they would think he was a freak' and that 'you didn't need a girl to be a man' and of course 'I don't care if she's a D cup, it's what's inside that matters' although on that occasion I agreed with him, it was what was inside the D cup that mattered.
I was sure Remus would get himself a little lady friend one day though, one that really understood him I hoped. I put my hand on his shoulder and he winced in pain.
"Oh mate, i'm sorry i forgot...I -"
"Seriously mate, no worries" He said, biting his lip.
"Look let me help" I grabbed hold of his arm and before he could protest i had popped it back into place. He screamed, then suddenly looked a little sick.
"How...where...when?" He asked, flabbergasted.
"Something i picked up from watching too many bad muggle, casualty programs" I grinned slapping him on the back.
Anyway when Remus and I had both calmed down we noticed that our lessons started in 15 minutes.
We grabbed our bags, books and wands and made our way to our Charms lesson.
My stomach rumbled as I remembered I hadn't eaten that morning, o well I would turn my pocket watch into an apple and have that.
I had totally forgotten about my prank the day before and only remembered when I saw a whole crowd of people, from all years and houses, milling round a wall laughing there heads off. Damn my experience with crowds.
I grinned and looked at the piece of art before me. In large yellow letters read:
"IN NEED OF THAT SPECIAL TOUCH, PINING FOR THAT LONG LOST AFFECTION? CALL OUR ESCORT TEAM OR DIRECTLY CONTACT ALBUS DUMBLEDORE ON THE NUMBER 123456 REMEMBER, WE LIVE TO PLEASE" Then in tiny letters in the bottom corner was "By the way, James Potter woz 'ere"
"Ahh Mr Potter the star of our show, would you please follow me" Came the voice of…dun dun dun McGonagall! "And Mr Lupin, you as well"
"But Professor, he had nothing to do with this!" I stepped in.
"And you expect me to believe that? Mr Black and Mr Pettigrew are all ready with Professor Dumbledore" Oh no what had I done, all of that and I still don't get the glory! Oh yeah and the guys got in trouble, that's bad too.
As me and Remus were death marched up to Dumbledore's office I could have sworn I heard an organ playing and the sound of hushed sobbing and noses being blown. Girls were calling out to us things like:
"Be brave" and "Stay strong" and "My hero". And boys were commenting on our "Strong minds and will" telling us to "not forget them, as they definitely won't forget us" It was like we really were dead meat, and then it struck me…we probably were.
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